I know the rules in Chicago Manual, etc. for using hyphens with prefixes (generally it's not done, except for certain circumstances). However, there is a context I have not seen addressed anywhere. When you have a compound term like

It seems to me that reading comprehension skills are very difficult for many English learners. What aspects would you like to emphasise in teaching reading comprehension? Or should it be taught at all? Is it enough if students just read on their

We already often informally use 'k' (kilo) for 1000, and, ... clearly-defined meanings and so there is no risk of confusion. Well, the "informal" use of K for 1000 very neatly

) for 1000, and, conveniently, the symbol for mega- (M) is the same as that used for 'million'. Given

} }> As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage }> guides, the word "use" with ... come up with another example of a fully conjugable verb that } isn't usable in all of its tenses? "Ought"? How

} }> As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage }> guides, the word "use" with the sense "make it a practice" or "be }> accustomed" can be quite conveniently regarded as an ordinary

CyberCypher> I don't think anyone would use it in that context, CyberCypher> except to make a linguistic joke. "to run" ... simpler to verbs with separable prefixes in German: "abgeben" and "aufgeben" are

LEE Sau Dan wrote on 19 Jun 2004: CyberCypher> I don't think anyone would use it in that context, CyberCypher> except to make a linguistic joke. "to run" and "to run on" are two different things. I'd even say

Depemds on the context. In the context of a 400m race, it does not. CyberCypher> I don't think anyone would use it in that context, CyberCypher> except to make a linguistic joke. "to run" and "to run on" are two

I've recently learned that the American Psychological Association publishes style-guidance works. The home page for that topic is http://www.apastyle.org/ , ... . I especially like the latter source because it agrees in general with the things